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In ’79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing 20,000 people.
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In 410, the Visigoths sacked Rome, disappointing Christians who relied on God’s protection from the ecclesiastical milieu of early Christianity. Augustine then addressed this challenge in his monumental work, The City of God.
In 1456, in Mainz, Germany, volume two of the celebrated Gutenberg Bible was bound, which completed a two-year publication task and made it the first complete e-book to be published with movable types.
In 1572, thousands of Protestants were massacred in France through Roman Catholics in the so-called St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
In 1660, Pierre Radisson and his brother-in-law Chouart des Groseillers made the decision to form the Hudson’s Bay Company after they had had a fur fortune confiscated from them because they had gone west without the permission of the governor-general. The company nevertheless received a royal charter in the fur industry in 1670. Now known as HBC, the company is in its fourth century of operations.
In 1791, the British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act, which divided Canada into two provinces, Upper and Lower, each with its own lieutenant governor and legislature. The law was necessary because of the wonderful influx of Loyalists into the United Empire after the American Revolution. The English-speaking settlers did not need to live under French law or the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1814, British troops set fire to the White House in Washington, D. C. , the War of 1812. The British action was taken in retaliation for the American looting and burning of York, now Toronto. A British fleet had landed the previous August at the Chesapeake. Bay and General Robert Ross’s troops smoothly defeated the 5,000 militiamen accumulated to protect Washington. Ross’s troops failed in a later attempt to take Baltimore.
In 1870, Métis leader Louis Riel left Fort Garry when troops led by Colonel Garnet Wolseley arrived to quell the Red River rebellion. Riel, who had established a provisional that had killed Ontario Orangeman Thomas Scott, fled to the United States. He later returned to Canada to organize the Northwest Rebellion in 1885.
In 1872, the cartoonist and cartoonist Sir Max Beerbohm was born in London.
In 1876, the Cree of central Alberta and central Saskatchewan agreed to reservations.
In 1877, Alexander Graham Bell patented the Canadian telephone.
In 1891, Thomas Edison filed the first patent for a motion picture camera. The camera, called a kinetoscope, took moving pictures on a film tape to see through a box. Although the film lasted thirteen seconds, some features of the camera are still used today. .
In 1920, prominent Canadian artist Alex Colville was born in Toronto. His circle of relatives moved to Amherst, N. S. in 1929, and attended Mount Allison University in Sackville, N. B. After graduating in 1942, he joined the army and was sent to Europe as a war artist. After the war, he taught at Mount Allison until 1963, when he resigned to paint altogether. -time. Colville resumed his training a few years later as a visiting professor at the University of California in 1967 and as a guest artist in Berlin in 1971. He designed the piece that marked Canada’s centennial in 1967. On July 16, 2013, he died at his home in Wolfville, N. S. of central disease after years of dealing with fitness problems.
In 1922, René Lévesque was born in New Carlisle, Quebec. After a career in journalism, Lévesque became a minister in the Quebec Liberal government of Jean Lesage in 1960 and guided the nationalization of the province’s personal electric utility companies, which would be Hydro-Québec. . Lévesque left the Liberals in 1967 to discover the independence movement, which became the Parti Québécois. Following the astonishing election of the PQ in 1976, the Lévesque government passed Bill 101, which strengthened French’s prestige as Quebec’s official language. But his sovereignty-association proposal was rejected in a referendum in 1980. The PQ was re-elected in 1981, but Lévesque resigned under fire from his party’s sovereigntists 4 years later. He died on November 1, 1987.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, flew from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in 19 hours and five minutes.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created through Canada, the United States and 10 European countries.
In 1950, the first Canadian unit to succeed in the Far East in the Korean War arrived in Tokyo.
In 1968, France became the fifth largest thermonuclear force in the world when it detonated a bomb at a checkpoint in the South Pacific.
In 1969, the American supertanker Manhattan departed Chester, Pennsylvania, to cross the Northwest Passage for the first time via an advertising ship. The aim was to demonstrate the viability of this direction for shipping arctic oil. With the help of two other ships, adding a Canadian icebreaker, the Manhattan arrived at Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories, on September 15.
In 1974 the first International Festival of Francophone Youth ended in Quebec City, in which 25 Francophones participated.
In 1980, the Polish government bowed to the demands of the strike and announced democratic industrial union elections, as well as the liberalization of the one-party political formula in Poland.
In 1981, Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years in prison for shooting music icon John Lennon on December 8.
In 1988, the General Council of the United Church of Canada voted to ordain all members, regardless of sexual orientation. It was the first time a Canadian church had taken such a resolution and caused a wonderful department in the ranks of the church.
In 1989, the wonderful baseball player Pete Rose was kicked out of the game for life over allegations that he had bet on the sport.
In 1990, 3 Canadian warships sailed for the Persian Gulf to participate in the blockade of Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait 3 weeks earlier.
In 1991, Ukraine declared its complete independence.
In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as head of the Soviet Communist Party. His resignation put an end to the world’s first communist state 71 years after his birth. Gorbachev ordered the seizure of all assets of the ruling Communist Party and appointed a new inmate composed of anti-communist reformers.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida with walls of water and winds of 265 km/h. More than one million South Florida citizens were ordered to leave their homes. At least 40 other people died in Florida and the Bahamas and asset damage estimated at $20 billion.
In 1992, engineering professor Valery Fabrikant opened fire on his colleagues at Concordia University in Montreal. Four other people were killed and Fabrikant was convicted of first-degree murder in 1993. At his trial, he claimed that he drove there because his paintings were appropriate.
In 1992, China and South Korea established diplomatic relations.
In 1994, the PLO and Israel signed a grant of autonomy to Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on education, health, taxation, social welfare, and tourism.
In 1998, Gillian Guess was sentenced in Vancouver to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice. He had an affair with a defendant while on the jury that acquitted him and five other men accused of two gang murders.
In 1999, Onex Corp. CEO Gerald Schwartz announced a $5700 million plan to buy Air Canada and rival Canadian Airlines and merge them into a new giant, Air Canada.
In 2001, an Air Transat Airbus 330 on a Toronto-Lisbon flight made an emergency landing on the island of Terceira in the Azores after running out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean due to a leak. Pilot Robert Piché, who skillfully flew over the plane for 18 minutes over the ocean, was hailed as a hero.
In 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin officially declared the harm done to Ukrainian Canadians who were interned and disadvantaged from fundamental civil liberties during World War I and allocated $2. 5 million for commemorative plaques and educational materials.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union approved a new definition of planet, stripping Pluto of its prestige and classifying it in a new category known as dwarf planets.
In 2007, two died and 11 others were injured after a hot air balloon got stuck in the chimney and crashed into a trailer park in Vancouver.
In 2011, Steve Jobs, the spirit of the iPhone, iPad and other devices that turned Apple Inc. in one of the world’s toughest corporations, he resigned as CEO and said he can no longer take over the job. Apple’s chief operating officer, Tim Cook, has been named chief executive officer. (Jobs died on the fifth of October at the age of five. 6He had been battling cancer since 2004 and had taken 3 casualties. )
In 2012, the serial killer Anders Behring Breivik testified sane before a Norwegian court and was convicted of bomb and firearm attacks that killed 77 other people and injured two hundred others in 2011. He won a 21-year sentence that can be extended until long as he is considered a risk to society.
In 2012, the U. S. Anti-Doping Agency (T. E. ) The U. S. erased 14 years of Lance Armstrong’s cycling career, his record seven Tour de France titles, and banned him from gambling for life after concluding he had used banned substances. (In October, cycling’s governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale, accepted USADA’s findings. )
In 2015, Canadian Shawn Barber won the country’s first gold medal in pole vault at the World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, and the first gold medal since Perdita Felicien in the 100-meter hurdles in 2003 in Paris.
In 2016, a magnitude 6. 2 earthquake swept through the central Italian cities of Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto, killing another 299 people, plus a Canadian, and leaving thousands homeless.
In 2017, Senator Mike Duffy sued the Senate and the RCMP over the way they handled charges related to his expenses, claiming millions of dollars in damages for lost profits and benefits. Duffy was acquitted in 2016 of 31 counts of fraud, failure to accept as true with and corruption.
In 2017, Montreal Alouettes receiver Nik Lewis was the CFL’s all-time leader in pass receptions with 1,030, surpassing the wonderful Geroy Simon of British Columbia. Lions.
In 2018, Robin Leach, whose voice crystallized the opulent 1980s on the TV show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died at age 76.
In 2020, Erin O’Toole, the new leader of the federal Conservative Party, won the contest in the third round of voting. Peter MacKay placed himself moment after winning the first circular. More than 175,000 party members voted.
In 2020, Donald Trump was renamed the Republican presidential nominee in a reduced roll call vote at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina. Voting was reduced in accordance with fitness protocols for the spread of COVID-19.
In 2020, the wife of a black man shot and wounded by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, said she was sitting in the back seat of a pickup truck with her children when an officer opened fire. Laquisha Booker said Jacob Blake was unarmed and the children were screaming. Police who responded to a call about a domestic dispute fired seven shots when Jacob Blake opened the door of the van and leaned toward the vehicle with his back to officers. The shooting sparked a night of violent protests.
In 2021, Democrat Kathy Hochul became New York’s first female governor. Hochul took the reins after what many described as a disastrous departure from his predecessor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo submitted his resignation letter weeks after facing an imaginable impeachment similar to several sexual abuses. reports of harassment.
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